[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 98931] Insert images into cells in Calc

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98931

--- Comment #3 from V Stuart Foote <vstuart.foote at utsa.edu> ---
(In reply to cheater00 from comment #2)
> "Insert image" is not sufficient. I'll quote the original post below:
> > when you resize or sort data the images don't follow the data, since an image
> > anchored to B3 will always be anchored to B3, even if the data moved down to
> > B12. Second of all, I can't easily resize the image to look at it in detail.
> 
> Or in other words this does not implement list points 2-10 from the original
> post.
> 

Sorry, one can equally question if your proposed usage of Calc is how a
spreadsheet is intended to function?

All else aside, LibreOffice Calc and its spreadsheet documents are intended to
be compliant with current ODF standards, in particular ODF 1.2 for Spreadsheet
Documents with rich data structures and methods, including increased use of the
OpenCL API, for supporting the manipulation of numerical cell content and
formulas.

That compliance sets our scope of function and is the only "direction" and core
functionality that Calc must support--in truth the project has no need for Calc
to do anything more than behave as a spreadsheet document editor and user
environment.

Standards allow OLE content holding other ODF to be embedded into a cell
(charts, graphs, even Draw images), as well as image/graphics can be
embedded/linked to a cell. But the table structure of the spreadsheet is
primarily to hold textual and numerical data for manipulation based on the
content of cells.

All else: Cells, Rows, Columns and Pages can be formatted by style, or direct
formatting, for display of text or numerical content and formula results. 
Add to that styling for printing and report generation rounds out the
functional requirements for LibreOffice Calc. Handling of images and OLE
objects is limited to the styling that can be applied to their frame
container--that is the scope we are obliged to support. And that alone is the
scope of development and "direction" of Calc.

In other words, Calc is *not* an image/graphic display environment and will
likely never be made one in the sense you propose.

Not saying it could not be done, but it would be out of scope for what a
Spreadsheet document is intended to be from the projects perspective.

Again, IMHO believe that LibreOffice Base and the OpenDocument Database Front
End Document Format (ODB), of the OASIS ODF 1.2 standard, is the only correct
way of populating styled Table reports holding and manipulating images and
their metadata. Manipulation of that image data does not belong in a Calc
spreadsheet.

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